But when the big showdown between LSU and Alabama is looming, all bets are off.

There’s no limit to what some fans will do to support their home team.

There are haircuts and then there are smashing haircuts at Smashing The City Barber Shop in the 2400 block of O’Neal Lane in Baton Rouge.

Each year when the LSU Tigers take on the Alabama Crimson Tide, die-hard fans flock to owner Richard Payne to show their team pride.

"Geaux Tigers!" and "Roll Tide!" are chanted by fans inside the establishment owned by Payne, who's a huge LSU fan.

"Any type of art that you want, I can do it, whether it's teams, pictures,” said Payne, an artist who uses clippers, trimmers, razors and hair coloring pencils to etch art on the canvasses of his clients’ heads.

Partial to LSU and Saints logos, his two favorite teams, Payne turned a 13-year hobby into a career.

And like any artist, no two creations are identical.

"It's always going to be a little bit different, because I guess when you have a masterpiece, it's kind of hard to redo it the same way. It's never actually going to be the same," said Payne.

The big college rivalry dating back decades came to a head back in 2007 when former LSU head coach Nick Saban took a job as head coach for an arch rival, the Alabama Crimson Tide.

"That's when it became truly a rivalry. A lot of these die-hard LSU fans believe Nick Saban was stolen away from them. So it gets ugly," said fellow barber Courtney Walker.

With countless works of art under his belt, there is one that Payne hopes to create one day at the big game on the fifty yard line.

"I want to actually go cut in the middle of the stadium at halftime and do Nick Saban's face in one of the people's head and put the funny little mustache on him like the mimes," said Payne.

That dream has yet to fade.

Even though Payne bleeds purple and gold, he won't limit his artistic ability to only the Tigers.

“Not a very good reaction,” said Kycle Craig, who knows that wearing an Alabama logo in Baton Rouge comes with consequences.

"I'll get a lot of ‘Geaux Tigers,’ ‘Tiger Bait,’ yelled at me and everything," said Craig.

But it’s a risk he’s willing to take at “SMASH,” an acronym that stands for “Success Makes A Soul Hungrier” as one cutting edge barber clips his way into Tiger history.

"Beautiful. I like that," Payne said as he admired his work after creating the eye of the Tiger inside the Fleur de Lis of the Saints.

Payne said he’s given many cuts to current and former LSU players. Many have gone off to the pros but stop whenever they’re in town.